Apache "mod_d" needs C to instantiate D interpreter?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"sybrandy" <sybrandy at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Ahh, I see that's written by the ANTLR/StringTemplate guy. I never read 
>> that
>> paper, but the docs for his StringTemplate were a big part of what 
>> convinced
>> me that template engines shouldn't try to be full-fledged imperative
>> programming languages.
>>
>>
>
> I've done web development for a chunk of my career and I have to agree. To 
> me, there should be a clean separation between code and templates. 
> Templates that have looping in them are garbage to me as now you have 
> logic in two different places.
>
> The best templating solution that I've seen is Template::Recall for Perl 
> (http://search.cpan.org/~gilad/Template-Recall-0.15/lib/Template/Recall.pm)
>
> In this case, there is no logic in the template.  You "render" the 
> different parts of the template as needed and you have full control within 
> your code.  To me, something like this should be part of the standard 
> library as it would make outputting formatted text much easier in those 
> cases where there is a standardized format, like XML or HTML.
>

Judging by that link, yea, that sounds a lot like StringTemplate: 
http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ST/StringTemplate+Documentation